Topic: US Politics — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-07 07:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: First rule of politics: Never ignore the will of your base. Second rule of politics: Never make your party and your supporters weaker, or the opposing party stronger.
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[2026-05-07 07:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The French Senate has adopted a proposed law aimed at combating Islamist infiltration (208-124).
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[2026-05-07 07:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has signed a new national counterterrorism strategy that focuses in part on the "neutralization" of hemispheric threats and incapacitating cartel operations, top White House adviser Sebastian Gorka said on Wednesday.
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[2026-05-07 07:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States President Donald Trump says he has had “very good talks” with Iran over the past 24 hours and it is “very possible that we will make a deal”, as Tehran reviews a US peace proposal that sources said would formally end the war.
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[2026-05-07 07:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: E. Jean Carroll exits the New York Federal Court after former President Donald Trump appeared in court, Sept. 6, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)
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[2026-05-07 07:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: President Trump hosted UFC fights in the Oval Office on Wednesday afternoon to promote the upcoming June 14 fight on the White House lawn.
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[2026-05-07 06:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Back in February, an otherwise dry senate hearing took an unexpected turn when a flustered treasury official confirmed a little known fact: Australia gets more tax from beer than gas exports.
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[2026-05-07 06:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva delivers his speech during the Global Progressive Mobilization summit in Barcelona, Spain, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort, File)
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[2026-05-07 06:30 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Recent international news has been dominated by the Iran war, particularly by the provocative statements of US President Donald Trump, making it difficult to shake off a sense of gloom. Against this backdrop, it was refreshing to encounter a piece of news that felt almost uplifting, especially as it came from King Charles III of the United Kingdom.
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[2026-05-07 06:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, acompañado por el secretario de Defesa Pete Hegseth y el presidente del Estado Mayor Conjunto, el general Dan Caine, habla con reporteros en la sala de prensa James Brady de la Casa Blanca, el lunes 6 de abril de 2026, en Washington. (AP Foto/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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[2026-05-07 06:09 UTC+10:00] [Defense] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Polish President Karol Nawrocki said Wednesday that Poland is ready to host American troops withdrawn from Germany and that he would personally lobby Donald Trump to send them east.
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[2026-05-07 06:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — The US military fired on an Iranian oil tanker Wednesday as President Donald Trump sought to pressure Tehran into reaching a deal to end the war. The Islamic Republic said it was reviewing the latest American proposals.
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[2026-05-07 05:56 UTC+10:00] [Breaking News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump announced he is pausing ‘Project Freedom’, the US effort to guide stranded vessels out of the Strait of Hormuz, so he can finalise a deal with Iran, but added that his blockade of Iranian ports would remain in place.
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[2026-05-07 05:55 UTC+10:00] [Foreign Affairs] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Belgium’s Prime Minister Bart De Wever has pushed back forcefully against criticism from U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Bill White, who accused the country of being antisemitic.
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[2026-05-07 05:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: CHANGES headline, lead; UPDATES throughout; ADDS photo)By Song Sang-ho
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[2026-05-07 05:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Experts are dubious that time will work in Mr. Trump’s favor. The United States “can certainly do more damage to the Iranian economy, but they have withstood more pressure than any other economy in history, and that hasn’t produced the collapse of the regime or more reasonable positions,” said Suzanne Maloney, an Iran specialist and director of the foreign policy program at the Brookings Institution.
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[2026-05-07 05:49 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 90]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Good morning and welcome to our live rolling coverage of the war in Iran, this Thursday, May 7.
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[2026-05-07 05:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-05-07 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Un buque portacontenedores anclado mientras un pequeño bote de motor pasa frente a él en el estrecho de Ormuz frente a Bandar Abbas, Irán, el sábado 2 de mayo de 2026. (Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA vía AP)
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[2026-05-07 05:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Royce Hall on University of California, Los Angeles, campus is seen in Los Angeles on Aug. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
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[2026-05-07 05:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Long after the Iran war is just a bookmark in the history books, one distinct consequence will persist: much of the world, at least the part that does not fall under the Chinese sphere of influence, will do everything it can to avoid the Strait of Hormuz and failing that, have a Plan B.
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[2026-05-07 05:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump, accompanied by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine, speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, April 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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[2026-05-07 05:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The White House 2026 counter-terrorism strategy has identified Islamist extremist groups, Latin American "narco-terrorists" and left-wing agitators as the biggest threats to the US.
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[2026-05-07 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The European Union should shield the International Criminal Court from US sanctions linked to its case against Israel’s alleged war crimes in Gaza, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said.
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[2026-05-07 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
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[2026-05-07 04:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Government and Politics
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[2026-05-07 04:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told a congressional committee Wednesday that a lunch invitation from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on his private Caribbean island was “unsettling” — but that didn’t stop Lutnick from traveling there with his wife and kids in 2012.
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[2026-05-07 04:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Virginia Senate President pro tempore Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, listens to debate on the Senate floor, Feb. 17, 2026, in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Ryan M. Kelly, File)
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[2026-05-07 04:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: From left to right, Tom Steyer, Steve Hilton, Chad Bianco and Matt Mahan participate in a California gubernatorial debate hosted by CNN at East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park, Calif. Tuesday, May 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
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[2026-05-07 04:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Primary elections in Indiana and Ohio have drawn the latest battle lines for the United States midterm elections in November, while underscoring Trump’s continued sway over Republican voters.
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[2026-05-07 04:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., speaks to supporters after being declared the winner in his Republican primary race, Aug. 1, 2024, in Franklin, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
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[2026-05-07 04:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Richland County voters on Tuesday backed a move by their three county commissioners and preserved a ban on wind and solar power by a thinner margin than partisan politics may suggest.
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[2026-05-07 04:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: CHANGES headline, lead; UPDATES throughout)By Song Sang-ho
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[2026-05-07 04:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — The U.S. military launched another strike Tuesday on a vessel suspected of transporting drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three men.
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[2026-05-07 03:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Donald Trump's pause on a short-lived "Project Freedom" to guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz, as he claimed progress had been made towards clinching a "Complete and Final Agreement" with Iran, soothed oil markets and sent hopes soaring of a breakthrough.
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[2026-05-07 03:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Ted Turner, the billionaire founder of TV news network CNN, has died at 87, CNN reported Wednesday.
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[2026-05-07 03:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: China urged Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the war with the US and Israel on Wednesday after the Trump administration called for Beijing’s help in the matter.
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[2026-05-07 03:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A container ship sits at anchor as a small motorboat passes in the foreground in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Saturday, May 2, 2026. (Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA via AP)
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[2026-05-07 03:09 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: President issues fresh ultimatum despite US claims of progress in stalled negotiations
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[2026-05-07 03:07 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Ben Jennings on Donald Trump and ‘Project Freedom’ – cartoon
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[2026-05-07 03:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he believed there was "a very good chance" of sealing a peace deal with Iran, but threatened to resume his bombardment of the country if negotiations fell apart.
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[2026-05-07 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Foto difundida por la agencia de noticias china Xinhua, que muestra al ministro de Relaciones Exteriores chino Wang Yi (segundo desde la derecha) con su contraparte iraní Abbas Araghchi (izq) en Beijing, el 6 de mayo del 2026. (Cai Yang/Xinhua via AP)
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[2026-05-07 02:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A Democratic frontrunner in California’s gubernatorial race has been running on his experience working for former President Joe Biden — but one administration official issued a shocking judgment instead.
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[2026-05-07 02:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Sebastian Gorka escucha al presidente Donald Trump hablando con reporteros tras firmas órdenes ejecutivas en el Despacho Oval de la Casa Blanca, el 23 de abril de 2025, en Washington. (AP Foto/Alex Brandon, Archivo)
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[2026-05-07 02:47 UTC+10:00] [Indiana] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Though Trump’s popularity has dwindled, staying loyal to him seems to still be a winning strategy among the GOP
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[2026-05-07 02:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Donald Trump said bombing would resume at a "much higher level" if Iran did not agree to a deal. (Reuters: Nathan Howard)
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[2026-05-07 02:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Los precios de la gasolina son exhibidos en una gasolinera en Centennial, Colorado, el 28 de abril del 2026. (AP foto/David Zalubowski)
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[2026-05-07 02:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Sebastian Gorka listens as President Donald Trump speaks with reporters after signing executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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[2026-05-07 02:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Virginia Senate President pro tempore Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, listens to debate on the Senate floor, Feb. 17, 2026, in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Ryan M. Kelly, File)
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[2026-05-07 02:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Personal de emergencias retira a Guido Reichstadter, de 45 años, del puente Frederick Douglass, el miércoles 6 de mayo de 2026 en Washington. Reichstadter escaló a la cima del puente la semana pasada y descendió tras 6 días de protesta. (AP Foto/Julia Demaree-Nikhinson)
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